QGIS Job Trends in Manchester

QGIS (formerly Quantum GIS)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring QGIS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 - 180
Rank change year-on-year - - +72
Permanent jobs citing QGIS 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.053% - 0.026%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.73% - 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median annual salary £75,000 - -

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Manchester

QGIS falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 273 455 795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 7.17% 19.65% 20.31%
Number of salaries quoted 214 243 669
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,563 £46,250 £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +5.50% -0.91%
75th Percentile £73,438 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £89,625 £87,500 £86,250
North West median annual salary £54,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.81% +5.00% -4.76%

QGIS
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing QGIS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

QGIS job vacancy trend in Manchester

QGIS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (100.00%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Geospatial Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Leaflet
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) OpenLayers
1 2 (100.00%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Spatial Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform